Communication for the CCMDB

We decided to use this wiki to improve our communications. In order for that communication to be any better than what we had before, we need to all agree how we are going to use it. This is not a complete strategy, but just a start. Please have a look and contribute. Keep in mind that the aim of this tool is to reduce the effort and work of communicating as inclusively as possible.

Below are some ideas. For this article and for now, let's do this:

• If an article is marked as stub it is a work in progress. If it is different from your paper coding guide, the wiki instructions may not yet apply if they contradict the paper ones.
• If you have details to add, disagree with an idea, have concerns, or something is unclear, please write it right under that point.
• Please end your entry with a ~~~~ to show who contributed it, and when. This is not mandatory, but will help anyone who needs clarification.
• once a point is addressed to everyone's satisfaction, any of us can incorporate it into this (or a separate) article and remove the discussion trail.

Watching an article

To do the following you will need to be logged on as yourself. If you want to be notified when an article has changed, you can open that article and click on the "watch" tab. If a watched article changes, this change will show up on your my watch list - the link is in the top right hand corner of the screen. Additionally, you can go to the link for my preferences and under the email options in the right bottom corner check E-mail me when a page I'm watching is changed. You may have to authenticate your email address first - if so, the preferences window will tell you this also. I think we should all watch at least this article and the main page for now. That way I can add info about anything updated to the main page. Any thoughts?

Discussions

Let's not use the discussion tab at the top of the page to prevent people from missing that there is a discussion going on. The discussion can happen at the end of any article or article section instead. Add the following to the text to give instructions on joining the discussion, and to add the whole article to the "questions" section: {{discussion}}

Moving the manual online

I have started to move parts of the data collection manual online. Once all parts are online I will write some "special" articles that will basically draw together different collections of data, such as the medicine coding guide, or the critical care coding guide. Ideally, I don't encourage people to print these out, but that will be an option.

Lists of possible values

I suggest we not include the actual lists of values for various fields because your PDA and Access program list them. Any copy we generate of this data will need to be maintained, and therefore can become wrong and out of date.

What are your thoughts?

How to notify of an updated/new entry

If you have written a new entry or want to solicit feedback for an entry, please send an email to either all data collectors, or all in your program, as may be appropriate for the topic. The mailing lists are now set up to work from outside of HSC. Please contact Tina Tenbergen to find out how to use the mailing lists. I am not posting the information here because it would open us up to spamming.

I think the email you send should look something like this:

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Hello everyone,

the following information has just been added to the wiki:

<one line description of subject>

<link to wiki article>

As always, please

- read the new information

- if you find typos or grammatical problems, fix them

- if you have concerns about the content, enter them onto the discussion page

Your participation is vital to improving our communications!

<salutation>

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To add a link to the subject, just copy the URL (i.e. the http:\\ltc.umanitoba.......) from the address bar) into the email.

Discussion

• What do you think?